a lot of interesting ideas out there. we'll see what the president has in mind. we'll get some indication at the briefing we hope coming up soon. bill: good to have you with us today. see you tomorrow. martha: "happening now" starts right about now jon: good morning to you,. an angry showdown on capitol hill as lawmakers demand action on the scandal rocking the veterans affairs department. good morning i'm jon scott. >> hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. great to see you today. there are growing calls for eric shinseki to resign after an inspector general report confirmed there were secret waiting lists for veterans trying to get medical care at the phoenix va hospital. gop lawmakers stepping up their calls for answers. >> they have known about it. they ignored it just as they ignored the jobs bill sitting in the senate. this is opportunity for one to get this done right, how we treat our veterans is direct correlation what we think as americans.

they defend our freedom. this is the way to get treated. when you get asked the question, you say you are just now finding out about it? jenna: republicans with the grit system. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live with more. mike, calls for new leadership really are growing louder. who is behind this? >> reporter: well, jenna, you've got some senate democrats who are up for re-election and some key national security republicans calling for eric shinseki to leave his post as secretary of the va. question what house democratic leader nancy pelosi will say. she is due to address reporters momentarily after the interim report from the inspector general confirms veterans were put on a secret waiting list, waited on average nearly four months to see a doctor. this is all much bigger than a phoenix scandal. so far house speaker john boehner isn't ready to call for new leadership. >> i'm going to continue to reserve judgment on the general shinseki. you know, the question i asked

myself is, is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem? is it going to help us find out what's really going on? the answer i keep getting is no. >> reporter: that reflects the belief from many here on capitol hill hill that firing shinseki won't fix treatment that our veterans are receiving. jenna. jenna: interesting. mike, you can speak to this. it is unusual to have a late night hearing in the house that goes all the way almost until midnight. what was that all about, this late-night house hearing last night? and how did it move the story forward about this scandal? >> jenna, they put three va officials on the hot seat four hours last night. chairman jeff filler tried to get a sense of urgency. >> ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. veterans died. get us the answers please! >> reporter: then after

10:00 p.m. last night, one va official offered this candid comment. >> i think that there is the potential that we have lost true north. i think we need to focus on our mission, treating veterans, providing health care. i think we need to focus our performance measures on giving us the tools that we need to provide timely care. >> reporter: you still hear a sense of frustration from lawmakers here on capitol hill. they feel the va is not being truly transparent or forthcoming. jenna. jenna: more on this story as it continues to develop. mike, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: for more on the va scandal and the political impact let's bring in nina easton, senior editor, washington columnist at fortune. she is also a fox news contributor. a.b. stoddard, associate editor and columnist at "the hill." nina, to you first. just 24 hours ago we were hearing from the president the big speech in front of west

point in front of a mostly military audience. we didn't hear anything about the va. why? >> we didn't hear an apology, jon. that is the first thing that needs to happen here, the president needs to apologize to vets. i don't see how shinseki survives this. and the president needs to step in and make sure that those vets who are on waiting lists are actually able to get care through a private civil, through vouchers. this report, preliminary report, presumably, is just the tip of the iceberg because it is preliminary, right? even that, sampling of veterans showed 115-day wait for their first appointment. jon: eric shinseki was sort of a legendary general, ab, in part because he said that the invasion of iraq, the second invasion of iraq, was going to take a lot more lan forces than the administration was suggesting. is that why he is so popular in the obama administration? >> well, he is very respected on

capitol hill by republicans and democrats aside from his reputation within the obama administration for his service and being a good and honorable man. as you hear from senator john mccain, who only yesterday called for his resignation, same with chairman of house armed services congressman buck mckeon, and what you hear house speaker john boehner are reluctant to call for his resignation, they respect him and they believe his resignation will not fix this crisis. the that problem aside, general shinseki was not in his position because of his service, he was there to take care of veterans administration and health care provided to needy veterans, very best in need veterans. 1700 of those were left entirely off the list without care. jay carney, the press secretary for president obama said yesterday the president is deeply troubled and the secretary will immediately implement the recommendations of it g report. there have been 18 ig reports of

this type of scheduling malfeasance and impact, negative impact on veterans health care since 2005 and general shinseki has been accountable since 2009. jon: president obama has essentially said, nina, that you know, we have a huge backlog of problems at the va when my administration came into office. we had all of these vets coming out of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and we were, you know, overloaded. is that an acceptable explanation? >> not at all. i mean he is passing the buck once again. obama in 2008 ran one of the issues, he ran on was cleaning things up at the va. it is five years into his administration and you can't just blame, by blaming it on these wars, he is of course blaming it on past administrations that started this war. i think it is time for him to step up to the plate, to bring fresh blood into the va.

i have a suggestion for that fresh blood. i think we should try a politician who has got management turnaround experience dating back to the 2000 two olympics, mitt romney. he needs a job. i think somebody who has serious management turnaround experience needs to come in and just, just shake things up. because, again this is just a preliminary report. and even that says these are systemic problems, throughout the entire system. it is a huge management turnaround problem. jon: and ab, for democrats heading up to the midterm elections who are already on shaky tooting anyway with the rollout of obamacare and some other things, this is not good political news. >> no. in fairness to the veterans seeking care, those working on their behalf, in the right way at the va and the small chorus of champions on capitol hill, this is hardly been a national

crisis receiving the kind of attention it deserved as i mentioned dating back to 2005. but now that it is a crisis in the open, president obama can not ask democrats who are already in trouble after the results of this report were made public yesterday to continue to defend general shinseki and they won't. jon: if this were a right hospital system it would have gone bankrupt and belly-up a long time ago, seems to me. a.b. stoddard, nina easton. thank you both. >> thanks. jon: to our america's asking question, we want to know should va secretary eric shinseki resign? what do you think. foxnews.com/happeningnow, click on "america's asking" tab, get in on the live chat. jenna: continuing for the hunt for the malaysian plane that disappeared three months ago. investigators now say they have hit a dead end. david piper, streaming from bangkok with more. david? >> reporter: jenna, yes, they don't seem to be any closer to finding the missing plane.

it now looks like it will take a lot longer to find it. the u.s. navy's bluefin submersible robot has now completed searching the area they thought the plane went down. the australian authorities say it found nothing. australia's deputy prime minister said the search had been based on the best information available at the time. the australian authorities still remain confident that satellite data shows the plane did eventually crash in the southern indian ocean. they're bringing in some equipment to help the search and as well as taking a look again at the satellite data. they focused on this area west of pert, australia, because investigators thought they detected pings from the plane's black boxes. there have been reports it could have come in fact from the ship towing the bluefin or the submersible itself. the announcement they still haven't found anything is a body blow for the relatives of 239 people on board. >> look, my first reaction i put

such hope in this area and i've been preparing for it to be obviously with the confidence and i'm sure, i know there is disappointed they didn't find anything. look, just, it just is another slap in the face. just another long road for us and, look, i'm just, i'm shattered by the news. i'm absolutely shattered. >> reporter: malaysia airlines mh-370 went missing on the 8th of march as it flew from malaysia capital kuala lumpur to beijing. it is believed to flown back across the peninsula of malaysia before heading southeast of the big questions remain, where is it and -- back to you, jenna. jenna: still lingering to this day, david. thank you. jon: no sign of a seat cushion from the plane. that is what is so surprising. no debris, nothing. it just vanished. a u.s. marine jailed in mexico speaking exclusive to our greta van susteren about his treatment in custody and what if

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jon: ever see that brad pitt movie, ""fight club""? this was not a scene out of it. pitt was assaulted by a red carpet prankster at premier of his come mannian angelina jolie new movie in hollywood. the guy jumped right over a barrier and right at pitt. julie banderas with the fox 411. julie. >> he was standing by his woman and gets bam-bam, sucker-punched in the face. angelina jolie and he were on the red carpet at the "maleficient" movie premier, signing autographs and when a man jumped barrier hit brad in the face. this guy is no stranger singling out celebrities. he is a ukrainian prankster with a history of getting arrested for his 15 minutes of fame. in 2002 he tried to kiss will smith before being slapped by the actor. remember that? and then at the 2013 grammy

awards, jennifer lopez blocked him as he tried to ambush the stage as singer adele was about to accept his reward. he put his head, up america ferrara's white puffy address on "how to train your dragon" ii. unclear how he gets into the events. unclear whether he punched him in the face. the a-list actor seemed unfazed and laughed after incident. police arrested him on suspicion of battery. in addition security should recognize him because he is been at many events. jon: he is tall. >> wearing maroon, bright red pants. how do you miss him? jon: okay. >> hopefully he stays in jail longer and learns his lesson. this is serious charge. jon: would have been better if pitt decked him. >> had he seen it coming. he sucker-punched him. that is not good. jon: julie, thank you. jenna: we'll keep a watch out of the window.

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dispute. patti ann browne live at breaking news desk with that. patti ann? >> jon, casey kasem rose to fame years ago because of music county down shows like america top 40. he has been suffering with dementia and his wife is battling with children from a previous marriage whether he is getting good care. earlier this month a judge in los angeles suspended the power of his wife jean to make medical decisions for him. the judge giving kasem's daughter, carrie that authority. jean moved her husband from california to washington state without informing his children. sheriff located the pair staying with friend but kerrey says jean is still refusing to comply with the judge's order that casey be evaluated by a doctor and a attorney. carrie and their city julie say they are still being kept from their dad. >> let us see our dad on regular basis. let my dad see his family. let my dad will be his children

who he loves more than life. >> now jean kasem has been ordered to appear in court tomorrow or risk jail time. jean two weeks ago told reporters her husband is happy and comfortable and wishes to remain under her care. she called the accusations against her malicious and unfounded. jon, we'll see what happens in court tomorrow. jon: that is really, really a strange story. patti ann browne thanks. jenna: another strange case. a court hearing for the u.s. marine jailed in mexico. sergeant andrew tahmooressi firing his attorney right before the hearing started. mexican police arresting him almost two months ago after he says he accidentally crossed into the country with three registered weapons. one of his friend says he is being treated like a prisoner of war. the marine spoke exclusively to our very own greta van susteren. take a listen. >> he just, he got on the walkie-talkie and was communicating what was going on. i think what he said was, hey, we've got a guy down here with three guns and then, in came the

military officer, you know, march in and, like he was a man on a mission to, to, you know, get the job done and, and then, he just took control from there, the military officer. and he didn't seem to care at all about any, anything of what i had to say or my story at all. he just, it was like, a math equation in his head. three guns, man, equals prison. jenna: more of that interview tonight 7:00 p.m. with greta. with more on this, former prosecutor dan schorr is with us an trial attorney heather hansen. that might be the case but we've done enough of these stories, dan, where we see an american go into another country and your citizenship only gets you so far. so the issue right now is, apparently the marine says that his lawyer was telling him to

lie about whether or not he has been to tijuana before. he has been apparently but his attorney said, don't tell them that. that is where the beef was. now he has to start over. what do you think about that issue and how it is relevant to this case? >> the issue is saying he never intended to go into mexico. according to this marine his lawyer saying tell him you've never been to mexico and that is part of the reason you were confused. he no, i have been to tijuana before. i was confused this time. i didn't intend, because if you're caught in any lie will undermine your credibility for the case. jenna: did he do the right thing here, the marine? >> he did the right thing. you don't want to lie in the court. if you get caught in a kind of lie gone to tijuana and use that against you undermine your credibility saying i never intended to cross the border here. that is the case. jenna: that leads to the question, even though it was a mistake, heather. he went into another country with weapons. we can relate to making wrong

turn, honest mistake. >> mistake is not necessarily a defense. in mexico, you're guilty until proven innocent. the case is not put forth the way cases are put forth with testimony and trial in certain numbers of days. it is put for the in bits and pieces. part of that is his statement he had never been to tijuana before. this thing adding up puts him in a difficult legal position. the political part because legally he is in a bad space. jenna: politically this is how it should be solved rather than in court? >> if it is solved in court he is in a very difficult position. he is getting a new attorney. hopefully that will help him out some. having lied to authorities, mistake is not necessarily a defense. what is he really going to say? >> i don't disagree with that we don't know for sure he lied to authorities. he said at border. he didn't want to cross the border of the he said i'm at mexican border. i don't want to cross. it was a mistake. i need assistance. if that is all true he should have not been arrested and be detain. and report he is beaten chained

to a bed is horrible situation if that is true. jenna: fellow marine, one of the friend has been in contact with andrew and has a description about the way that he is being treated. let's go ahead and take a listen to that. >> everyone knows that international i surrender symbol when you put your hands behind your head and say i surrender. that doesn't allow officials to take you down to the ground and beat you with a bat and dislocate your jaw. and, strip you naked and chain you to a bed for 24 hours. this is from his mouth, what i'm telling you right now, is what he endured as american citizen and a u.s. marine, wass chainedo long, that when they finally released him at the end of that four weeks, that he couldn't even walk, he was crippled from such bad muscle dystrophy and joint pain and not able to fire the muscles in his body. jenna: if that is true, we have no reason to doubt it, what do we make of that, heather? >> it is a difficult situation

because bail there is different. getting him out is going to be different. and that is why i go back to the issue there has to be political means to get him out because the legal means, you can stay in jail there for much longer period of time than you can here. jenna: does that mean politically government has to get involved, dan, when everyone make as wrong turn into mexico and has an issue like this? is this setting bad precedent? >> this is really important case. first of all it's a u.s. marine. it appears he did not intend to go to mexico. jenna: you believe intent is center part of this case? >> absolutely. even if a crime you can be arrested crossing border, didn't intent, any prosecutor looks at totality of the facts and has discretion, well this person didn't intend to cross the border. a u.s. marine. quick ily wanted to return to the u.s. and they imprisoned him and beaten. this should not be the case. >> i disagree in the fact of intent. important thing here we have a marine who is one of our own, who is being held and apparently

abused. for those reasons politically it makes sense to get involved. i think intent thing comes to play in the legal system. the legal system there is not as helpful to defendants as it is here in the united states. jenna: raises question, what if opposite happened, mexican drives into the united states. had weapons, was pulled over. how would that person be treated in our prison? >> another important point. there is rampant corruption in the mexican legal system. this is not the united states system, well you say, there will be due process, let it play its course. we can't have confidence he will get due process. >> the problem we honor their systems. just as we expect them to honor ours. so it's a difficult, difficult situation for him and his family and legal process is not going to help him as much as political process. jenna: we'll be interested to hear more from him tonight. heather, dan, you will be back with us. 7:00 p.m. eastern time, you don't want to miss this, greta has interview with the jailed

marine. that is 7:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll hear from him, jon, what actually is happening behind closed doors. jon: that is quite a story. you know, hats off to that marine for enduring. there are new developments in search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorists in nigeria. what that country's president is saying about the effort and why one analyst says hashtag foreign policy not the way to solve the problem. a trip to the gas station takes a terrifying turn as a masked gunman unleashes his fury. it was all caught on tape. we'll tell you what happened coming up. earlier this spring and now you're at it again. scott: (chuckles) indeed, a crucial late spring feeding helps defend the grass against the summer heat to come. nbr: we knew that - right guys? oh yeah! scott: feed your lawn. feed it!

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jon: still to come this hour of "happening now," terrifying moments at a gas station when an armed robber opens fire and it is all caught on tape. plus a growing danger in outer space similar to the disaster portrayed in the hit movie gravity. what is being done to keep space as safe as possible. photoshoped yearbook pictures causing controversy in one high school. get this, the is the school that altered the pictures so why? the full story ahead on "happening now." jenna: new information as nigeria's president vowed to do everything possible to find hundreds of girls kid naped by the terror group boko haram. the government is not saying what is being done to bring them back of the military claimed

they located girls but feared using force could get them killed. more fears that al qaeda is strongly influencing boko haram and how the group is becoming nor more of a international threat. we'll talk about that now. peter farm is director of the africa program at the atlantic council. he testified at the first hearing on boko haram in 2011. you said participants were sitting in a broom closet. with that lack of attention on the group, why did you study boko haram? why of all groups out there why did your antenna go up on this group? >> this group had all elements of growing threat in my analysis. it had a marginalized population economically, politically and socially attuned to an antigovernment message. it had opportunity, large frontiers, that were poorly policed, if policed at all. it had growing links with known

al qaeda affiliates like al qaeda in the islamic maghreb, the north african branch of al qaeda, al-shabaab terrorist group in somalia which gave it some training. all the elements were coming together and i was seeing increasing virulence and more extremist message and all the elements of the equation was there. this is country perhaps americans don't pay as much attention to it as it should, nigeria is africa's most populous country and largest economy and for many years it was our fourth largest source of imported petroleum. jenna: there is legitimate reason as we hear them listed off, peter, why this group caught your attention. we always enjoy talking to you about the terrorist threats and changing demographics in north africa. but your expertise on this group is particular importance after seeing this major news story, all these girls getting abducted. you say boko haram has changed from boko haram, the first

generation to now boko haram 2.0 and perhaps moving into 3.0. tell us a little bit about the evolution and how it could potentially impact us here at home. >> certainly. the first iteration of boko haram pre-2009 was mainly a group focused on changing nigeria, imposing its version of extremist islamic law on a quarter of nigeria. after the government crushed it, the survivors linked up with al qaeda franchises, al qaeda affiliates, acquired new technologies. they learned how to do suicide bombings, truck bombings. and then since 2012, this perhaps, the latest iteration they learned guerrilla tactics and carrying out full-fledged insurgency which last two years displaced over 300,000 people in northeastern nigeria. so it is becoming a really serious threat. and they have learned new tactics. to kidnap nearly 300 girls requires a lot of coordination. not just something you can do at the drop of a hat. it shows a group that can plan

an operation and carry out an operation with great sophistication. increasingly likely as number of intelligence sources tell us, it is likely to start targeting western interests. it already hit the u.n. in nigeria and american interests are probably next in line. jenna: let's talk a little bit about more about that. i notice there is schism between experts. those that say this is africa issue. they don't really have means to attack american interests either overseas or particularly here at home but sound like you do feel they have the potential for that and it is coming off the news of the president saying that really we want to partner with different countries overseas. we've dumped millions of dollars of taxpayer money into africa to try to train local government's law enforcement, if you will, whatever is out there, to try to combat these groups. is that an effective use of our taxpayer money, peter, and how concerned should we be we could be the next target?

>> two points, jenna, first it is an effective use of our money if government we're partnering has will to fight terrorism and not trying to get a armed unit to keep the regime in power. that is a key political judgment we have to make each and every time. it will differ from country to country. second point as to the threat, this is a group that five years ago was doing drive-by shootings, small-time violence, devastating to the people affected but really not impinging upon the international community. since then it picked up truck bombings. it carried out transborder operations t operates in four, if not five different african countries. it is growing by leaps and bound and acquiring a great deal of sophistication. we can't judge it by yesterday's standards. we have to look where it is today and where it is heading. jenna: you give us a lot to think about. the story is focused on the schoolgirls. we have to think bigger at that than that. peter, we look forward to having you back an look forward to

talking to you about these topics. thank you, peter. >> thank you, jenna. jon: california is looking to cash in on a bummer crop, a all natural zero calorie sweetener, currently grown outside of the u.s. but farmers in the golden state are giving it a try as rising obesity rates cau food and beverage makers to shift to the alternative. claudia cowan is live near sacramento with more. claudia. >> reporter: jon, green houses like this one a sign of things to come because the bad rap on artificial sweeteners to turn to stef very yaw. it comes from the leave of the is the tevia plant. it is 300 times sweeter than suggest bar but won't hurt your health. with demand growing it could turn out to be a sweet deal for california farmers. this acre of the crop represents a health-conscious and potentially lucrative "field of dreams." >> the large production occurs

in china now. we hope to grow it here in the u.s. >> reporter: in a pilot program to learn where and how stevia gross pest best, this biotech company is enlisting california farmers to meet a surging demand. >> california is the perfect place for growing stevia. california central valley has tens of billions of dollars in agricultural exports each year. it is load the with sophisticated growers, agronomists, technologists help facilitate bringing a new crop here and making it thrive. >> reporter: scientists working to extract the sweetest molecules have a key goal. convincing beverage companies that use 31% of the nation's sugar supply to make the switch. >> the market for high potency sweeteners is a multi-bill dollar market. the market for sugar is tens of billions of dollars annually. we're working to cut into that in a significant way and have california growers become a part of it.

>> reporter: while stevia has been around for decade it was only approved by the fda as a food additive in 2008 which helps explain why we have not seen large-scale production yet. but the world health organization estimates that stevia will eventually replace up to 30% of all diet sweeteners worldwide. jon, california farmers will be critical to ensuring a steady supply. jon: i'm curious, have you taken a leave of that stuff and chewed it? is it naturally sweet right off the bat? >> reporter: it is. it can be a little bitter. you won't eat the leaf. it becomes processed into kind of a sugary type substance or a liquid. in fact you use a few drops of this to turn that lemon water into a refreshing lemonade. you need a couple of drops. it is very good product. jon: we'll not get a demonstration from you today. that's okay. just curious. claudia cowan. >> reporter: it's good. it's good. jon: thumbs up. thanks, claudia.

jenna: bring some in for your coffee. have you ever tried it? jon: i don't think i have. jenna: you have to do the right exact amount. jon: okay. jenna: i'm a calfornian on set. i will bring in free to give it a try and demonstration. jon: sound good. jenna: dramatic surveillance video of an armed robbery. two men who will stop at nothing to get cash from that register. plus a three-man crew dock at the international space station today. are they going to see something like this? this is all the space junk surrounding our planet. jon: that is chia pet earth. jenna: it really looks scary. is that space junk posing a threat to astronauts up there? what about posing a threat to us? we'll into that next.

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jenna: well let's check out what is ahead on "outnumbered" at top of the hour. harris and kimberly standing by what is coming up. hi, guys. >> is mail chauvinism to blame for the mass shooting near santa barbara? glorida allred says this is illness that can be cured. >> mean people on line to going to war. >> no crying at baseball. how about shedding tears at the office impacts people's opinion of you. >> you know what? our hashtag lucky guy said in the green room if a guy has that problem, he should get help. this should be interesting.

coming up at top of the hour. out numbered. jenna. jenna: looking forward to it. thank you. jon: good news in the battle against blight to tell you about. the city of philadelphia, ordering negligent homeowners to fix up their properties or they will be seized or torn down. apparently it is having quite an impact on home prices to the good. david lee miller, live in the newsroom with more on that. david? >> reporter: philadelphia neighborhoods targeted for neglected buildings have seen a 74 million-dollar increase in property value. one reason this program is so effective, is unique way the city identifies properties that are in the earliest stages of distress. parts of tulip street in the northeast section of philadelphia are hardly a garden spot because of homes like this. but city housing inspector derek mccaul is helping to stop urban decay. he is enforcing a citywide ordnance that fines building

owners $300 every day for each and every boarded up or otherwise neglected window and door. at this home, that is a daily fine of $3900. >> makes you feel good when you come to a property such as this one and, you see it this way. and then you come back to it, maybe six months from now and it is fixed. >> reporter: city statistics shows windows and doors ordnance as part after program to combat housing blight is making a difference. since 2011, 13,000 building owners have been cited for violations. 2,000 have complied and about 500 went to court. >> the doors and windows are kind of the first step to a property being abandoned. that abandonment continues the property will deteriorate structurally over time. >> reporter: neighbors who live near property being cited say neglected homes are more than an eyesore. >> i wouldn't like to live next to something like that. there is house that is right there that is overgrown.

rat-infested. it is a danger for kids an everything. >> reporter: locating neglected properties, well, that's easy. finding the owner, that can be much more difficult. the largest fine, assessed so far, one million dollars. after the property owner failed to appear in court. jon? jon: lot of houses there. looks like a great fixer-upper for people that like to do that kind of thing. >> reporter: certainly improving. jon: david lee miller, thanks. jenna: a new mission to explore the neighborhood beyond our planet as more crewmembers arrive at international space station. we'll tell you about a growing problem in space involving a whole lot of junk and the danger in fact it does pose. some year bock photos causing a whole lot of controversy. did the school go too far to change the students pictures to be more appropriate? we'll show you next. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity.

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jon: russian spacecraft successfully docking with the international space station. >> we have preliminary booster ignition. jon: the launch of the soyuz spacecraft earlier today called flawless. the three-man crew joining two russians and an american who have been at the station since march. but it is becoming a dirtier and more dangerous job up there. take a look at this image. it captures the massive amount of space junk that's orbiting around our planet and it poses a real danger. joining us now, dr. derrek pitts, chief astronomer of and director the franklin institute planetarium. the movie "gravity" was about space junk that hits and imperils the international space station. that is far more than a fantasy. there is becoming a real problem with orbiting space junk,

dr. pitts. >> yes indeed there is, jon. that problem is growing because there is so much material in orbit over our planet in the form of satellites already, but that material is breaking down for a number of different reasons, creating many, many more pieces. so if you count up the number of pieces that are there, there are easily well over 300,000 objects in orbit around our planet that aren't intact satellites. they're small pieces of debris left over from launches or from satellites broken up or even defunct satellites. if we can't control those, then they become a danger to all the other spacecraft that are there. jon: the orbiting speed is in the tens of thousands of miles per hour. i understand that even a chip of paint has impacted, for instance, the space shuttle or the international space station it can chip the glass in the windows? >> yes, that's true. stf-7 challenger orbiter a number of years ago was impacted by this piece of paint as you mentioned. it create ad crater in one of the windows.

the real factor about this is, it is the fact that the objects are going at a very high rate of speed. even if it's a very small object, if it is traveling 20,000 miles an hour that creates an enormous impact. a lot of objects are much larger than that. some are traveling as fast as 42,000 miles an hour. very small object, less than an inch, traveling 30 or 40 miles an hour can destroy a 1,000-kilogram spacecraft without any difficulty at all. that creates even more particles, jon. that can impact other spacecraft. jon: how do you, how do you clean it up? >> that's a really great question. part of it, really does involve designing the spacecraft so they can be dior bitting after their useful lifetimes so that most of the material, most i said, burns up on reentry into the earth's atmosphere and hopefully larger pieces fall into the ocean. we need to develop a program in which we go up and we actually,

for lack of a better term, jon, sweep the orbits clean of material if we can. and that means either targeting them for deorbit or moving them up to higher parking orbits so they don't interfere with that critical spease of space between 500 and 900 miles up where we find most of the operating satellites. we also need to figure out a way to allow spacecraft that are on orbit to have some sort of protection of their own, at least for the smaller pieces so that the micro meteor 'roids or teeny particles can cause damage. jon: a challenge for upcoming generation. dr. pitts, nice to talk to you. >> thanks, jon. jenna: update on the amanda knocks case as a murder rock as small new hampshire town. our legal pan them breaks down the salacious case. wearable computers, in the form of t-shirts, is this future of medicine, wearable clothes with computers anything else that costs money.

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